[pygtk] Setting application name in pygtk?

[Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro]

 Sorry for the late reply, but...

On Ter, 2006-11-07 at 11:08 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Brian:
> 
> Setting the window title works great for the window, but it doesn't set
> the name of the application.  :-(  That is, if one were to look at the
> hierarchy with an application like at-poke on GNOME, they'd see
> something like this:
> 
> app: "-c"
>   window: "my window title here"
>   window: "some other window title here"
> 
> It's the "-c" that we're trying to make more human consumable.  It looks
> like PyGtk is grabbing arg[0] as a default for the application name.
> Other than the prctl stuff at http://davyd.livejournal.com/166352.html,
> is there some other way to tell PyGtk to set the app name?  

  Actually it might be gnome-python doing that.  Since 2.16, when you do
gnome.program_init(...) it looks at sys.argv[0] and calls prctl (or some
BSD equivalent) to change the "process name".  This was a hack stolen
from precisely that glob entry.

  But I really don't understand why on earth would argv[0] be "-c".

  In any case, modifying sys.argv[0] should be pretty safe... unless
done at some arbitrary point during application run time; better do it
only once at startup.  Another option is to pass an alternative argv to
gnome.program_init() (4th parameter).

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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
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